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icy, a.|ˈaɪsɪ|
Forms: [1 ísiᵹ], 5 isy, 6 isie, 6–7 icie, ycie, 7 icey, 7– icy.
[f. ice n. + -y. Cf. Du. ijzig, Ger. eisig, Sw. isig. Used in OE., but formed anew in the 15th c.]
1. Abounding in, or characterized by the presence of, ice; covered or overlaid with ice.
[Beowulf (Z.) 33 Þær æt hyðe stod hringed-stefna isiᵹ & utfus. a1000Boeth. Metr. xxiv. 45 Saturnus..is se cealda eall isiᵹ tungel.] 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 431 Whan Saturne with his colde isy face The grounde with his frostys turnyth the grene to whyte. 1597Middleton Wisd. Solomon v. 6 Winter in her icy car. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §32 The ycie Ocean cracks, the frozen pole Thaws with the heat of the Celestial coale. 1796H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) II. 112 The flowers of the Icy Zones. 1848Dickens Dombey iv, Men, vying..who shall lie out first upon the yards to furl the icy sails.
2. Composed or consisting of ice. † icy mountains or icy hills, icebergs (obs.).
1600Hakluyt Voy. III. 79 Striuing against the streame, and beating amongst the Isie mountaines. 1659D. Pell Impr. Sea 276 A sight of those huge Icy Mountains..which make such a dashing and crashing one against another. 1694Acc. Sev. Late Voy. ii. (1711) 29 In the Clifts of the Icy-hills on shoar. 1819Heber Hymn, From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand. 1820Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. I. 105 The icy cliff, from whence masses..were continually breaking. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxv. 335 Huge icy stalactites seventy and a hundred feet long.
3. a. Resembling ice; having the nature or properties of ice; extremely cold, frosty; slippery.
1590P. Barrough Meth. Physick v. xvi. 306 Sprinkle the pauements..dayly with water that is altogether ycie, and cold. 1598Florio, Sdrúsciolo, slipperie,..gliding, isie. 1640C. Harvey Journey 26 We scramble to get up the banks Of icy honour. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Butter of Antimony,..which some call Icy Oil of Antimony is a great Caustick, being us'd to eat proud Flesh. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. ii. §26 What creates a love for icy liquors? 1784Cowper Task vi. 137 Th' icy touch Of unprolific winter. 1886Law Times LXXX. 195/1 An icy current was blowing about their feet.
b. fig. Of demeanour, character, speech, etc.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, iii. i. 177 If he be leaden, ycie, cold, vnwilling, Be thou so too. 1638Drummond of Hawthornden Irene Wks. (1711) 168 An icy grandeur, erected by your selves. 1713C'tess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 351 The sixty Winters, that have..turn'd swift eager Love to icy Reasons. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. i. 23 ‘He came—and he is dead’, answered Christabel, in icy tones.
4. Comb., as icy-blue, icy-clear, icy-cold; icy-pearled (having pearls or sparkling drops of ice), icy-wheeled.
c1625Milton Death of Fair Infant iii, Mounting up in icy-pearled car. 1652–7Heylin Cosmogr. 342 That Island which in times of old The Greeks did call Hibernia, ycie⁓cold. 1812W. Tennant Anster F. i. 12 John Frost Drove thro' mid air his chariot, icy-wheel'd. 1839Bailey Festus (1848) 238 Clear, cold, and icy-blue like a sea-eagle's eye. 1922W. de la Mare Down-adown-Derry 93 Fleet-foot deer Lap of its waters icy-clear. 1925Blunden Masks of Time 41 Icy-clear The air of a mortal day shocks sense. |